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Comment Re:Only the first step (Score -1) 303

Trump is clearly playing the long game. Not stating an opinion on whether it will work or not, but the bet is that other countries need the U.S. more than the U.S. needs them.

As for Canadian cars, why would U.S. companies (re)invest in Canada when Canada is clearly increasing foreign competition and lowering potential margins? The numbers don't make sense, if for no other reason than market size.

Comment Re:Completely Predictable (Score 3, Interesting) 49

Part of the reason (not all) that Starship will require so much fuel is because of its size and payload capability, which is FAR greater than any other design has proposed thus far. That's not to say that Hydrogen isn't a more efficient fuel relative to methane. It is, 2x-3x more energy efficient by weight, but not necessarily by Volume which also matters.

I only say this because the details matter. It's not as if swapping Methane for Hydrogen lends itself to an Apples-to-Apples comparison. It's more complicated than that.

Comment Re:PowerShell was a wasted opportunity (Score 1) 32

PowerShell is longwinded with a bizarro Verb-Noun fixation and a heavy runtime behind it. Yes there are aliases but unfortunately those aliases suck - e.g. when you type "dir" in PowerShell it is an alias on Get-ChildItem which conspicuously not "dir" in the conventional sense and does not support the same arguments.

Would it have killed Microsoft to have written a cmdlet called Get-DosChildItem that behaved like the old command and alias to that? Same for the other commands - deltree, rmdir, cd, cmd, xcopy move, if, rename etc. - and even cmd itself. If they had done that then chances are command prompt would have gone away entirely because PowerShell would be a complete superset. They could have even written decent analogues for Unix file utils in the same way but they didn't do that either.

The only time I'll use PowerShell is when I'm forced to, when there is no other way to do something from a prompt to manage Windows. Otherwise I use a prompt which is terse and familiar and doesn't inflict verbosity or runtime complexity on me for no reason.

If that's what you want, it would not be hard to implement yourself. I concede, PowerShell syntax is a bit weird. I'm an old PERL/BASH guy, and PowerShell reminds me a bit of both, so I don't mind much. But getting a good one-liner PS command can get a little hairy.

Comment Re:Late-stage vaccine trials .. (Score 1) 194

Vaccines were except from late stage trials only because they were classified "Experimental." They are no longer classified that way. What's happening here is, "experimental" classification should never be used for any sort of long term approval. Arguably it should not have been used for any sort of large scale deployment at all, but...

Now as to whether the burden of U.S. FDA approval is too high or not, I think there can be genuine discussion about that. I suspect it is in most cases, but that is not what Moderna is complaining about here.

Comment Odds != Predictions (Score 1) 55

Gambling odds determinations have nothing to do with predictions of winners or losers. Instead, they have everything to do with how the "house" can balance bets against each other to maximize their profit, usually via the "juice." That's why betting odds change over time, and vary from "house to house."

Prediction markets like Polymarket are public sentiment only, so far as I can tell. True "predictors" are rarely any more accurate the the Magic 8-Ball.

Comment Re:New studies to follow (Score 1) 60

4) Can you totally laugh at Republican Senator Cassidy for thinking Trump would not support a republican primary against him if he just voted for RFK jr?

Trump encouraged people to vote for RFK Jr. in states that were safely Red. There could be any number of other reasons for Trump to support a primary challenge. Facts matter.

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